Stephen B.

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Senior ER Partner @ Currys plc
Mansfield, GB
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Mansfield, England, United Kingdom, United Kingdom
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About Stephen B.

Experienced Business Partner with extensive skills in coaching and supporting Board/Executive level in Public and Private Sector organisations. Supporting businesses in achieving their people plan and business objectives by highlighting opportunities, coaching leaders on complex people related issues, understanding talent, succession planning, executive recruitment and attraction, organisational design and restructures. Significant expertise in Employee Relations in managing and advising upon high risk and complex issues including disciplinary and grievances, redundancies, TUPE transfers with union consultation and negotiation. Experienced people manager, project management of large ER projects, operational management, improving management capability and process improvements.Key achievements in roles to date are:Significant increase in attendance rates across the whole business through greater management of long term and short team absence cases.Introduced greater compliance checks and advice to managers in the team so that a small number of all ER cases resulted in a Tribunal claim from 2016 until present. Introduced Time to Talk sessions with Board Members leading on this to reduce the stigma of talking about mental health and encouraging others to talk about this. Introduced talent management and succession planning to ensure everyone was assessed for their potential and supported their development. Greater focus on internal promotion rather than external recruitment. Mobility clause introduced following negotiation with Trade Union and colleagues were able to be moved from one geographical location with short notice.Procured, designed and implemented an e-recruitment portal for East Midlands Region increasing efficiency and customer experience.Created e-learning solutions, 45 minute ‘how to’ sessions and easy to use manager guides which saw an increase of 20% of manager self-serve and improved manager capability.

Stephen B.'s Current Company Details
Currys plc

Currys Plc

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Senior ER Partner
Mansfield, GB
Website:
currys.co.uk
Employees:
17
Stephen B. Work Experience Details
  • Currys Plc
    Senior Er Partner
    Currys Plc
    Mansfield, Gb
  • Currys Plc
    Senior Er Partner
    Currys Plc Jan 2022 - Present
  • Nidas
    Chair Of The Board Of Trustees
    Nidas Oct 2019 - Apr 2024
    Nottingham, Nottinghamshire, United Kingdom
  • Experian
    Senior Employee Relations & Governance Manager
    Experian Apr 2019 - Jan 2022
    Nottingham, Nottinghamshire, United Kingdom
  • E.On
    Senior Er Consultant
    E.On Dec 2014 - Mar 2019
    Nottingham, United Kingdom
    E.ON are one of the big six energy providers. E.ON is a division of E.ON SE a German Owned company. Within the UK E.ON has 10,000 employees with around 2,000 managers. The company recognises trade unions and has multiple locations across the UK. Responsible for all employee relations cases within E.ON UK around 400 at any one time with 100 of these considered complex. Act as an ER expert on Transformation/Change projects such as shift reviews, TUPE transfers, redundancies and restructures.Reporting into the Head of Colleague Services working with Director/Board Level and Senior HR Business Partners. People management of team of 10 ranging from HR Graduates, telephone based ER Advisors and remote ER Consultants. Responsible for improving management capability through solutions such as manager guides, webinars, face-to-face learning or e-learning. Management of high risk, complex investigations (disciplinary and grievance) and cases.Workstream lead working with Occupational Health, HSSE, ER and business representatives to implement ways to prevent highest absence reasons.Deliver management information for HR Director on ER case landscape highlighting trends, providing insight and recommendations for action on key people issues.Working closely with legal team to continue to develop team expertise and assessing not only legal risks but also wider business/people implications.Project management on large scale ER related projects.
  • E.On
    Hr Consultant
    E.On Apr 2013 - Nov 2014
    Nottingham, United Kingdom
    Reporting to ER Business Partner and working with Board member for business area and their leadership teams. Responsible as partner for New Business area with around 1200 employees and 200 managers. Area covered functions such as business change, operational excellence, highways lighting infrastructure, district heating business development and team responsible for ensuring we achieved our energy company obligation to improve energy efficiency for our customers. Supported the business through significant transformation/change projects such as TUPE transfers, restructures, redundancies and changes to terms and conditions such as introducing new pay scales and new contractual terms. Introduced talent mapping and succession planning into business area to ensure learning needs were focused and highlight future talent.Responsible for chairing the Trade Union Consultation forum to ensure business change in managed effectively.
  • E.On
    Er Consultant
    E.On May 2012 - Mar 2013
    Nottingham, United Kingdom
    Working with the Employee Relations Team dealing with high case load of complex and high risk cases within E.ON including capability, disciplinary and grievance. Management of cases from informal to tribunal management. Managing a case load of c. 50 cases through remote or face-to-face support. Supported continuous improvement through liaising with Heads of Business to provide learnings and ways to prevent issues in the future. Working with ER Centre of Competence to create guidance for the business – for example, unauthorised leave procedure and sick pay review process. Worked with stakeholders at all levels to support them in putting together a case strategy and seeking the best outcome for the business by assessing cost and risk of taking a certain approach.
  • E.On
    Er Advisor
    E.On Sep 2011 - Jun 2012
    Nottingham, United Kingdom
    Offered telephone support to line managers to assist with grievance (including bullying and harassment), disciplinary, capability (performance and attendance) issues. Advised to look at informal options prior to commencing a formal process. Used a low, medium and high risk approach to advising managers on cases so that they are fully informed to make the decision.Devised a new escalation model for work which is considered high risk, complex or requires face-to-face support from ER Advisor to HR Consultants.
  • Federal Mogul Corporation
    Hr Advisor
    Federal Mogul Corporation Apr 2011 - Aug 2011
    Federal Mogul are a car parts and manufacturing business who are an American owned business with sites globally. They have a number of locations across the UK with about 500 colleagues in the Derbyshire site. They recognise Trade Unions and work closely with them to ensure that service delivery is maintained. HR Advisor providing advice and guidance to managers and leadership team on handling ER queries, business changes and trade union relationships.Lead on Trade Union consultation to amend grievance procedure to reduce number of stages from 7 to approach consistent with the ACAS Code of Conduct.Reviewed Company Handbook and contract of employment to ensure legally compliant. Supported HR Director with strategy for pay award negotiations with trade unions
  • Nottinghamshire Fire And Rescue Service
    Hr Business Partner & Hr Officer (Projects)
    Nottinghamshire Fire And Rescue Service Dec 2007 - Mar 2011
    Nottingham, United Kingdom
    Nottinghamshire Fire and Rescue Service are a fire service which is responsible for ensuring the safety of Nottingham and providing fire cover to their region through part-time and full-time firefighters. They employ around 1000 colleagues with the workforce predominantly uniformed colleagues and a smaller number of non-uniformed support functions. They recognise a number of Trade Unions and have sites across the whole of Nottinghamshire and work closely with Fire Services within the East Midlands region. Responsible for leading on regional firefighter recruitment for the East Midlands region and supporting a TUPE transfer of five emergency control rooms into one. Business Partner for Control Centre and City and South Nottinghamshire as a key member of their leadership team for c. 350 people.Responsible for large scale corporate projects and implemented the Service’s HR Strategy by working with the Head of HR to rollout within the organisation.A few of the corporate projects are listed below:Lead on the redundancy process to reduce the Control function including individual consultations and creation of the redundancy selection framework.Responsible for the regional recruitment process for full time firefighters across the East Midlands including reviewing, revising and implementing the National Framework for recruiting firefighters to streamline the process.Management of Regional Control Centre project: TUPE transfer of five control rooms from each of the East Midlands Regions to a new company. Provided outplacement support for staff, including delivery of internal training session and the procurement of external providers.Designed and implemented a new job evaluation framework for uniformed roles. Developed and delivered an employee satisfaction survey.

Stephen B. Skills

Grievances Employment Law Recruiting Performance Management Tupe Employee Relations Personnel Management Union Disciplinaries Change Management Interviews Negotiation Assessment Center Employment Tribunal Workforce Planning Strategic Hr Hr Consulting Job Evaluation Redeployment Restructures Tupe Transfers Human Resources Management Compromise Agreements Retirement Redundancy Risk Management Informal Psychometrics Ill Health Retirement Informal Resolution Disciplinary Redundancies Staff Selection Disciplinary Actions Harassment Capability

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Stephen B.'s current role is Senior ER Partner.

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Stephen B. attended Ics Limited, Nottingham Trent University, De Montfort University, New College Telford, Abraham Darby Secondary School.

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Stephen B. has skills like Grievances, Employment Law, Recruiting, Performance Management, Tupe, Employee Relations, Personnel Management, Union, Disciplinaries, Change Management, Interviews, Negotiation.

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